Click chemistry meets polymerization: Controlled incorporation of an easily accessible ruthenium(II) complex into a PMMA backbone via RAFT copolymerization
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Happ, Bobby; Friebe, Christian; Winter, Andreas; Schubert, Ulrich S.
- Abstract:
- The copper(I)-catalyzed azide-alkyne cycloaddition provided an easy and efficient access to
a functionalized heteroleptic ruthenium(II) complex monomer. A grafted copolymer with
the heteroleptic ruthenium(II) complex and methyl methacrylate (MMA) as comonomer
was synthesized by reversible addition fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) polymerization.
The product was characterized by means of 1H NMR spectroscopy, UV/vis spectroscopy
and size exclusion chromatography coupled with a photodiode array detector. The
RAFT process itself led to a grafted copolymer with a low polydispersity index.
- Year:
- 2009
- Type of Publication:
- Article
- Journal:
- European Polymer Journal
- Volume:
- 45
- Pages:
- 3433 - 3441